The railway work is making progress. The embaokmont from the wharf to the station at the East Gate is well advanced. We hear that by next Chinese new year 2000 coolies will be employed. Chinese seamto think the way an unlimited employment bureau. Constantly we have applications for disappointed. The railway is not the gold mine they expected. weeks ago Tle. 7,000 worth pinta pills were destroyed by the Castoms on the foreshore. The parcels had been seized passing through the Post-office; and on the pills being. soalysed they were fonod to contain more thea fifty per cent of opiam. Quite " crowd gathered round to see the bonfire,
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